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Ghanaian President John Mahama’s high-profile visit to London this week, designed to showcase Ghana as a premier destination for foreign investment, was overshadowed by controversy. Photo Jubilee House

Mahama’s UK visit overshadowed by controversy

At the centre of it is London mining investor INIHC’s arbitration battle over the billion-dollar Black Volta gold project

City of lights: More than 30 000 LED lights lit the streets of London in celebration of Ramadan. Photo: Aziz Foundation

Eid Mubarak in a world on fire, at war

This year’s Eid is not naïve. It does not pretend the world is at peace. It does not ignore the children buried under rubble, the families displaced, the cities reduced to ash

King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort during the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace ahead of the coronation of the King Charles III and the Queen Consort at Buckingham Palace, on May 3, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

To carry the ivory spectre or not? Queen Camilla’s predicament

Animal rights activists and conservationists disagree over the significance of including the historical symbol during King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa (L), Britain’s King Charles III, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor and Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort during a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on November 22, 2022 in London, England. This is the first state visit hosted by the UK with King Charles III as monarch, and the first state visit here by a South African leader since 2010. (Victoria Jones – Pool / Getty Images)

Ramaphosa calls for reform of UN Security Council during United Kingdom visit

Cyril Ramaphosa is on a state visit to the UK, the first to be hosted by King Charles III after the death of Queen Elisabeth II in September.

There’s only one king in Paddy Harper’s eyes, and that is Thierry Henry.

Kings, queens and looted legacies

There’s an outpouring of grief north of the equator since Elizabeth II died, but no move to return the Empire’s ill-gotten gains

Police on The Mall ahead of the ceremonial procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state ahead of her funeral on Monday.  (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)

The British monarchy belongs in a theme park

The problem with a “business” that is about nothing but being family is you can’t fire family

Britain’s King Charles III attends the Presentation of Addresses by both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, inside the Palace of Westminster, central London on September 12, 2022 in London. Photo: Getty Images

For Africans, the British empire was neither benign nor good

Britain consolidated its rapacious theft of territories in Africa and Asia during the reign of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

King Charles III has announced a period of royal mourning that will last for seven days after Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, which is expected to take place within the next two weeks.

King Charles III expected to deliver first address as head of state

Tributes for Queen Elizabeth continue pouring in, with President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Nelson Mandela Founding adding their voices

A person holds their phone with a screensaver of Queen Elizabeth II who died this afternoon on September 8, 2022 in London, England. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Bruton Street, Mayfair, London on 21 April 1926. She married Prince Philip in 1947 and acceded the throne of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth on 6 February 1952 after the death of her Father, King George VI. Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8, 2022, and is survived by her four children, Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Andrew, Duke Of York and Edward, Duke of Wessex. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Should South Africans really care that the Queen of England is dead?

With the passing of Elizabeth II, the monarchy is set to lose credibility, visibility and popular appeal, according to recent polls